In plain words
Happiness is passing, Ānanda is lasting
The heart is filled with Ānanda. With the delusion that you are the body, you put a lid on it. Then it does not give you Ānanda. A small example. All through the day there is sunlight, so you do not switch on the bulb. But the current is there. At night, as soon as it grows dark, you switch on the bulb and the light comes. The bulb was there, the current was there, but because you did not switch it on, the light did not come. Just because you have not switched it on, you cannot say there is no current. In the same way, when you are taken up with the desires of the world, you turn off the switch called longing for God. When the darkness called troubles and losses closes in, you cry ‘O God!’ and switch it on. So, like the current, Ānanda is always there. But you make no effort to experience it. A small example. You feel hungry. If you eat two chapātīs, you feel happy. How long does this happiness last? It lasts until you feel hungry again. As soon as hunger comes, the happiness goes; as soon as you eat again, the happiness comes. So this happiness goes and comes. That is why they called it passing. But Ānanda is lasting.
Humanness is contained in divinity
The body has a right side and a left side. That means you must follow the right and leave the left. That is just why Rāmadāsu said, ‘I will not let You go a single step; I have made my two hands one. In this there is no right and left. I have made my qualities one.’ Rāmadāsu wrote many songs. ‘Swāmī! I do not know which I did with my heart and which I did without it. At times my whole mind is lost in it.